The IT Nerd

Today, LinkedIn released the second Canadian edition of Top Companies 2019: the list that ranks the most sought-after companies where people want to work in Canada. RBC takes the title of most desirable company, with 17 Canadian companies dominating the list, including household names like Shopify and Bell.

From financial services to technology companies, the results are based on the actions of LinkedIn’s more than 600+ million professionals (over 15+ million in Canada alone) and looks at four main pillars: interest in the company, engagement with the company’s employees, job demand and employee retention.

Canada’s Top Companies realize they must find new ways to woo professionals and set an example for the way corporate Canada treats employees. Among the themes emerging this year are harnessing technology in the workplace, building inclusive and diverse teams, and investment in upskilling talent.

Here is what the highest ranked LinkedIn Top Companies are doing to attract and keep talent:

1. RBC launched a new retirement match program that matches a portion of employee’s RBC student loan or mortgages for their retirement accounts.
2. TD’s asset management arm can now boast that it is Canada’s largest investment manager.
3. Scotiabank is scoping out employees beyond traditional finance roles and is hiring data scientists, an algorithmic trading developer and a fraud officer.
4. CIBC is moving up, all the way up to the tallest commercial building on the Toronto waterfront. CIBC’s head office is relocating to a new campus called CIBC Square.
5. BMO Financial Group considers inclusivity a top priority and is Canada’s only bank featured among the top 25 companies in Thomson Reuters’ 2018 global Diversity & Inclusion Index.

The complete Canadian Top Companies list is:

LinkedIn Top Companies 2019: Where Canada wants to work now

1. RBC
2. TD
3. Scotiabank
4. CIBC
5. BMO Financial Group
6. Deloitte Canada
7. National Bank of Canada
8. Shopify
9. Desjardins
10. PwC Canada
11. Bell
12. KPMG Canada
13. Manulife
14. TELUS
15. IBM
16. Amazon
17. Salesforce
18. EY
19. Loblaw Companies Limited
20. Intact
21. EllisDon
22. WSP
23. Suncor Energy
24. BOMBARDIER
25. Alphabet

Methodology:

The Top Companies list is determined by the billions of actions of our 600M+ members to unveiling where professionals really want to work. The lists are fueled by proprietary LinkedIn data on job seeker reach and interest, engagement, and retention paired with an editorial lens.

*For fairness, LinkedIn has removed LinkedIn and Microsoft from consideration for the LinkedIn Top Companies list as we do with all other lists in the editorial franchise.

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